SelfPayRates — hospital cash prices, from the source

Upper endoscopy (EGD) with biopsy in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Cash prices at 7 facilities across 5 cities for code 43239, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

HospitalCash price List priceOffFile date
Boston Medical Center South BROCKTON, MA
HC Egd Transoral Biopsy Single/Multiple
$853.84 $1,897.43 55%
file
Boston Medical Center Brighton BOSTON, MA
HC Egd Transoral Biopsy Single/Multiple
$889.15 $1,975.88 55%
file
Boston Medical Center BOSTON, MA
HC Egd Transoral Biopsy Single/Multiple
$996.75 $2,215.00 55%
file
Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA
HC Egd Transoral Biopsy Single/Multiple - Egd
$1,402.10 $2,003.00 30%
file
Lowell General Hospital LOWELL, MA
HC Egd Transoral Biopsy Single/Multiple - Egd
$1,652.00 $2,360.00 30%
file
Cambridge Health Alliance CAMBRIDGE, MA
HC Egd W/Biopsy Single or Multipl
$1,825.00 $1,825.00
file
MELROSEWAKEFIELD HEALTHCARE MELROSE, MA
HC Egd Transoral Biopsy Single/Multiple - Egd
$1,962.80 $2,804.00 30%
file
Cambridge Health Alliance CAMBRIDGE, MA
HC Egd W/Biopsy Single or Multipl
$4,806.60 $4,806.60
file

Outpatient: lowest $853.84, median $1,527.05, highest $4,806.60 — a 5.6× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 7 facilities here, median $1,402.10. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

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